Few performances in 2010 were as difficult to watch as Lesley Manville’s turn in Another Year. A Razzie nominee, you ask? No, far from it. Tabbed by various critics’ groups for their Best Supporting Actress award, and a BAFTA nominee to boot, Manville turned heads and wrinkled so many brows in wincing, knowing exasperation because of just how skillfully she embodied the suffocating neediness and loneliness of Mary, an aging British singleton who serves as a boozy, chatty leech on the lives of her best friends, Tom and Gerri (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen), and their adult son. In advance of the June 7 Blu-ray/DVD combo pack release of Mike Leigh‘s film, I had a chance to speak with Manville by phone recently, about her feelings regarding her character, her rich working history with Leigh, and the unique manner in which the award-winning writer-director shapes his material. The one-on-one conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa.